'For once a piece of non-discriminatory journalism I can endorse.'

MacKenzie sparked by a row with Channel 4 by complaining a Muslim woman fronted coverage of the Nice terror attack

Kelvin MacKenzie’s attempt at insulting the editor of Channel 4 News, with whom he has a long-running feud, managed to publicly backfire today.

The ex-Sun editor had tried to malign Ben de Pear, who runs Channel 4’s daily current affairs programme, with a jab referencing the broadcaster’s latest controversial show Naked Attraction.

“If the new C4 dating show, in which contestants have their faces hidden but display their penises and vaginas, is ever short of a large cock they could always ask the current editor of C4 News to appear,” MacKenzie wrote in his column today.

The row between the pair is likely to continue if MacKenzie follows through with his vow to complain to Ofcom about de Pear’s programme’s use of Fatima Manji to anchor the show broadcast the evening after an Isis sympathiser killed 84 people by mowing them down in a truck.

MacKenzie had originally written that “After Jon Snow had conducted a poor interview with a young man who had come perilously close to death, the action switched back to the London studio, where I could hardly believe my eyes.

He continued: “The presenter was not one of the regulars — Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Matt Frei or Cathy Newman — but a young lady wearing a hijab.

“Her name is Fatima Manji and she has been with the station for four years. Was it appropriate for her to be on camera when there had been yet another shocking slaughter by a Muslim.

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Fatima Manji called MacKenzie 'ill-informed, racist and Islamophobic' after his column about her

“Was it done to stick one in the eye of the ordinary viewer who looks at the hijab as a sign of the slavery of Muslim women by a male- dominated and clearly violent religion?”